From sit-ins to SNCC
Subtitle: the student civil rights movement in the 1960s
By: edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780813041513
Subjects: Race relations; Civil rights demonstrations; College students; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Civil rights movements; Political activity; History
Description: An examination of the role of the SNCC and various SNCC committees in the Civil Rights Movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan; title: Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk; title: "complicated hospitality": the impact of the sit-ins on the ideology of Southern segregationists / George Lewis; title: Breaching the wall of resistance: white southern reactions to the sits-ins / Clive Webb; title: SNCCs: not one committee, but several / Peter Ling; title: SNCC's stories at the barricades / Sharon Monteith; title: From beloved community to imagined community: SNCC's intellectual transformation / Joe Street; title: The sit-ins, SNCC, and cold war patriotism / Simon Hall; title: From Greensboro to Notting Hill: the sit-ins in England / Stephen Tuck; title: Epilogue: still running for freedom: Barack Obama and the legacy of the civil rights movement / Steven F. lawson.